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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11886	Sacrilege sacredly handled That is, according to Scripture onely. Diuided into two parts: 1. For the law. 2. For the Gospell. An appendix also added; answering some obiections mooued, namely, against this treatise: and some others, I finde in Ios. Scaligers Diatribe, and Ioh. Seldens Historie of tithes. For the vse of all churches in generall: but more especially for those of North-Britaine.	Sempill, James, Sir, 1566-1625.	1619 (1619)	STC 22186; ESTC S117106	109,059	172

happinesse as best becommeth Your most sacred Maiesties most Loyall Subiect faithfull seruant obedient Disciple dutifull God-Sonne IAMES SEMPIL TO THE VSE OF THE READER TWentie twelue moneths are neere spent good Reader since I had studied this Lesson whereof I doe heere now render thee an account a Lesson I say not a Lecture and so but to be read by entreatie receiued as without authoritie and censured freely for all are well-come that come well Two things would I aduise thee touching it The causes mouing me to it and the course I hold in it The chiefe cause was his Maiesties both example and authoritie as I haue said to himselfe who the more Kingdomes God giueth him the more carefull he is to see the Kingdome of heauen replenish them and so directing sometimes Commissioners of all sorts and Callings for surueying Christs Sanctuary in his Kingdome of Scotland I was for one Amongst many things reformable we found one almost incurable Sacrilege had sealed vp Ignorance in many places Leui was fled to his Land Nehem. 13. because he lacked his portion Some that had at first ioyned themselues to our Reformation more for rapine sake as appeareth then Religion both Atheists Papists and some in shew Protestants a Sacrilegious trinitie as they pulled downe the Churches so pilled they the Church-rents laying this ground The one shall neuer be built and the other euer begge The Atheist because hee hath No Religion he must haue All the Tithes The Papist disliking the present Religion thinketh in Conscience he may take Tithes in Custodiam And the Third renounceth Ignorantia est mater pietatis but yet protesteth that Paupertas be nutrix Religionis both blinde and beggerly rudiments No skant of such Protestants As my soule may see ioy I sorrowed for this being farre from all hope of gaine for I am no Leuite and free of all malice for I haue no priuate enemie and I could wish no friend in the businesse But when I saw their Sacrilege so confirmed as they could picke out more texts for a pecke of Tithes then perhaps for a point of saluation and againe seeing the Prince so perplexed to see his Churches planted I was glad to goe to Schoole for my owne direction finding neuer better grounds then I receiued from our Diuine Dauids owne mouth viz. The Church had euer an inheritance entitled Tithes before vnder and after the Law whereupon may stand a goodly building And this for my Motiues Touching the course then I hold in it I draw the generall word Sacrilege to the onely point of Maintenance and Maintenance againe to that onely which Scripture calleth Inheritance viz. Tithes The point then to bee confirmed is Tithes inheritance are due to the Ministery of the Gospell by the Law of God Many doubt of this as I both heare and reade but more deliuer their iudgements then confi●me it by good arguments for in such case Custome is no Law and Law is not humane but dependeth onely on God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And for this cause doe I not skumme the Fathers or Antiquities further then I find them play vpon the text pro or contra Then as I require not my reasons to be receiued with the reuerence of a Father so I pray thee good Reader reiect them not as the raueries of a childe for the one is neither author of lyes nor the other of Truth The Philosopher taught vs better To conceit truely of all things according as they are for they are not what they are because such is our conceit of them In Diuine testimonies then we are to consider Quis dixit and Quid dictum and so to acquiesce keeping alwayes that noble Boerean custome of Scrutamini Scripturas not fide implicitâ to beleeue all because such a **** aid so In humane testimonies we are onely to weigh Quid and quo jure dictum not Quis for no simple truth resteth vpon this According to three ages foresaid doe I treate of the question before and vnder the Law in the first part vnder the Gospell in the second Obiections are brought for earch Period as I haue read or heard them but most part namelesse for I seek to cleare the Truth not to be the Whetstone of Contradiction some obiections from my owne priuate debating with my selfe all which I haue set downe heere fearing other men might stumble at the same for the Spirit of doubting is an earthly guest and common the Spirit of true resolution from aboue onely Truth being but One and Error infinite If all doubts then be not heere peculiarly answered yet the grounds well held will answere all The Towne of Abe in Phocis was preserued by Philip Macedo when he had destroyed all the rest because the people of that Towne were free of Sacrilege Now if that Philip were to take a suruey of our Towns Boroughes and Abbeyes how many Abbees would he find What would he leaue vndestroyed The cause of mens carel snesse of this sin now I take to bee that Time and Custome hath giuen it such authority that it is neither feared nor admired where vnder the Law and Poedagogie of the Iewes it was most-times as presently punished as children whipped at schoole Vzza struck dead Vzzia leaper and Achan with his whole race ston●d or destroy●d for Sacrilege We take all as the prouerb is To the long day but then shall there neither bee place for Restitution nor Sacrifice for purgation Foresee good Reader and farewell ANDREAE MELVINI IN AVTHOREM ET ARGVmentum Epigrammata QVestio quae argutos exercuit vsque Sophistas Imperiale diu Pontificale forum Disputat hanc acer sollerti Semplius arte Hunc nodum soluit non secat ense ferox Rex nodum vt Phrygium Macedo Quanto hic magis illo Pellaeo Scotus vindice victor ouat In Sacrilegium Sacrilegos Eiusdem QVod natura quod Ars quod Naturae auctor Artis Rerum auctori vno dedicat ore Sacrans Auri hoc sacra fames scelerato intercipit ausu Dum dirum expatrat Sacrilegumque nefas Haud legum metus aut Regum reuerentia tangit Deuota immani pectora auaritiae Temnitis humanum ius mortale tribunal Diuinum en summo ius mouet arma foro En Iudex sublime locat sub nube tribunal Aliger in flamma vindice tortor adest Vobis Sacrilegis obstructum est limen Olympi Tartarei Ditis ianua aperta patet Eiusdem EST fluctus Decumanus est ouum Decumanum Et porta in castris quae Decumana fuit Sic rerum Natura parens sic aemula rerum Naturae Ars opifex sic vtriusque Deus In Decumis ponens quae maxima Maximo illas Dignas se Decumas segregat ipse sibi Quod sibi secreuit numen quod vendicat vni Deberi haud reddi hoc qui velit ater homo est S. S. SONET Of Sinne and Sacrilege ALL Sinne seemes sweete all Sacrilege is Sinne And of all Sinnes